Born in Philadelphia in 1959 I grew up in a suburb between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Susquehanna River. Then the Federal Highway grant in 1971 ploughed through our little idyll removing an old stone overpass and a farm house with a well. Soon followed strip malls and more strip malls. But I still like to linger, in my mind anyway, around the fields and streams near my childhood home. So I wrote a book about it. Caught somewhere between poetry and prose. And because I love Richard Brautigan's "Trout Fishing in America" so much, that became my lantern in the dark.

I have a BSc in Journalism from Boston University and an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmith's College in London. My poetry and prose has appeared in various journals and newspapers both in the USA and abroad.